A Decade of Dominance

The best records in the FCS from 2000-2009:

1. Montana 120-24 (.833)
2. Harvard 76-23 (.768)
3. Appalachian State 102-33 (.756)
4. Northern Iowa 80-29 (.734)
5. Penn 69-29 (.704)
6. McNeese State 82-35 (.700)
7. Colgate 81-34 (.701)
8. San Diego 73-33 (.689)
9. Furman 83-39 (.680)
10. Hampton 73-36 (.669)

In case Colgate's record got you wondering about the challenging non-league schedule Dartmouth has played for the past decade, the University of New Hampshire's record over the decade was 75-47 (.615). After an 18-27 start from 2000-2003, UNH has gone 57-20 (.740).

Holy Cross went 55-57 (.491) over the decade, but 39-28 (.582) since former Dartmouth assistant Tom Gilmore took over as head coach in 2004 – and 36-20 (.643) over the past five years.

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The Ivy League football web page has come to life with a collection of links to various preseason All-Ivy League and All-America teams. If you've been stopping by this electronic neighborhood there's nothing new here, but it's nice to have the links all in one place.

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It's available on the Dartmouth website, but I was not aware that the 2009 Dartmouth football highlight video can be watched via YouTube. It's well done.

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TigerBlog once again writes about the end of the printed media guide. He – I won't give away who he is but trust me, he's a, well, a him – and I aren't 100 percent on the same page about this. I'm keeping the final media guide for each Dartmouth opponent on my bookshelf for historical purposes.

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Speaking of media guides – and I worked on a few in my days in sports information – there's no question doing them was a headache. I'm not going to start telling tales out of school here, but suffice it to say some creative thinking occasionally came into play when the right photos didn't exist.

Nothing quite like this however. Ouch.

I like the writer's take on the whole thing:

Seeing the images, I had three immediate questions:

1. How does this guy have so much time on his hands?
2. Why is a Nebraska fan surfing the Texas Tech website then posting links on a Texas A&M message board?
3. Who cares?

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Interesting promotional concept out at Colgate. From a release:

The Colgate Raiders are gearing up for the best ride of the summer with the inaugural 2010 Raiders Tour. This summer road tour will make stops at towns throughout the Central New York area to give fans chances to win tickets to Colgate football games, receive free giveaway items, take photos with championship trophies and receive information about football ticket discounts.

This summer, fans can meet Raider along with coaches and former standout wide receiver Pat Simonds ’10 at select stops on the Tour.

Only the first two stops of the "tour" are listed, but kudos to the folks in Hamilton for some forward thinking.

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Former Dartmouth quarterback Josh Cohen gets "props" for his basketball ability from his brother Jake, a 6-foot-10 hoops standout at Davidson in this Q&A. Specifically:

Who is the best player you ever had to guard?
The best player I ever had to guard….I would have to say my older brother. Even though he decided to play football, he can flat out hoop. I’ve covered him a lot, and I mean a lot, and he has this nasty habit of making every shot he takes when I cover him. It must be a big brother thing, I don’t know.

Josh Cohen thought seriously about trying to play basketball at Dartmouth. His "little" brother, by the way, is having a terrific summer playing the the U20 European Championships representing Israel. Sports Illustrated.com has a story about the younger Cohen.